Thank you for these tutorials. I am too sickly to attend classes for this atm due to a heart condition for which I need surgery for. So this helps immensely and I can learn from home. You are a fantastic artist and teacher. Thank you.
yeah, when I try to draw random scattered patterns in manga it turns to a line. Then you try harder to make it irregular and it turns in to a diagonal line. OCD sucks for artists.
In art you first draw the rough sketch process. Then you find out what the results of the end product is. Art is ultimately unpredictable. So yes, I can certainly see how OCD would suck for artists.
I have such a hard time thinking of what to have as a background for drawings I've made up. I can get the person/s or character/s in the picture perfect but the background doesn't seem quite what I want. Or it just feels thrown together
Thank you so much Koizo. This was very helpful to me, you see, me and my sister are writing a manga, but she specializes in characters, and I specialize in writing, so we needed more people to do backgrounds and objects, until I saw this video that is! :D Thx a lot.
I really appreciate this! I've been stressing myself out over trying to digital paint a tree as an anime styled background and after hours of experimenting on it I want to break something! Sketching along with you in my pad definitely calmed me down lol It's all about knowing which details to put in, how to put it in, which details to leave out, etc. Sometimes it just takes watching someone else do it to help you connect the dots!
This is great!!! Most manga artists don't seem bold enough to do a tutorial on forest backgrounds. They concentrate on more boxy and simple landscapes! You rock!!!!!!!!
Именно этот парень лет 8-9 назад научил меня рисовать эти деревья! Я до сих пор использую его технику по сей день. Не знаю, что делал бы без его скилла🤣😍
lol! Ya, I lived in Tacoma for a bit and thought the weather was beautiful. It rained a lot but I love being around all those trees. Here in LA everything is brown TT
@32janik That will be a tricky one and I often think about it because a lot of you guys have been mentioning towns. I'm just trying to figure out how to explain it simply. Hmmmmm~~ I will have to think about it more. But it's definitely on my mind :)
I might have to do this one after seeing all the thumbs up for it :) maybe it could be a sort of romantic looking city with some people walking around-- like Final Fantasy cool city, not Niagara Falls.
sure :) that will take some time though. My manga takes place in a pre-Industrial time so there is probably going to be some towns. I will need some time to do research and think about the video. Nice idea.
Don't you hate when you're at the apex of inspiration. get your paper and pencil, place the lead on the paper, draw a line, and then feel like, "Haha, I can't draw!" .___.
This has been so useful I thought I would need loads of sheets of paper to get the image I wanted but the way you put it helped me draw it the way I wanted it to be first time. Thanks!
I wish I would have learned something like this in art class which I had for too many years. All we did was stupid abstract shit and stuff. I am currently learning and practising to real this good stuff via youtube. It is basically a shame how much time I already wasted in art class. There was only one time I can remember we drew people with pencil and ofc we drew some bottles and fruits but the instructions always were miserable - stuff like: "Got ya some food, kids. Now draw it." I love this channel!
Hey, I came back to this video after a while because I was having a brain fart for some reason. It still helped me as well as before. Thanks! 8 years later.
I loved the tutorial!!!❤️ I did the picture but I made some small changes. This was my favorite tutorial of the landscapes videos I have seen so far!!❤️❤️❤️
I learned so much from this video!!!! Not just about how to draw a forest but how to build up a proper background. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom. :)
Thank you so much, this was really helpful for a comic/manga that I'm doing ( if your interested of what the manga is about it's about the wendigo, if your not familiar with the wendigo, I highly suggest to search what it is, if your busy of course but anyways thank you so much for this tutorial, it was very helpful)
I like your style ^_^. I've been looking for good ways to draw forest backgrounds. I've gone through countless drawing books and a lot of them don't go too far in depth with forests. This video is just what I needed to continue my drawing education. Thank you for putting this up and I will be checking out your other videos. Keep up the good work.
It's best to establish a little bit of background first, so that you draw your character in the correct perspective, and you can establish whether or not the lighting of the environment is going to make the character look different, but don't go into much detail until after the character is drawn.
Yeah that would be great. I recommend trying an old fashioned village with a river or stream of some sort going through the middle of it. Of course that might mean adding a bridge or passageway going over it. Pretty hard task to do, but it would be awesome if you could do that. That would be covering maybe housing, bridges, perspective, water, etc. and would be an awesome (probably long and time consuming) video tutorial. Just my recommendation, but only if you'd like to. Don't work too hard.
the manga characters that u draw, have u created them???? can u draw smthing in which u have to draw a crowd?? something like busy street?? u entering a theatre n lights r on??? or a market place where many ppls r??? plz plz plz.................?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you SO MUCH. I suck at drawing trees and backgrounds so this helped me out A LOT! BTW. I like how you draw the tree perfectly the first time but take two tries to draw the bush in the background. lol. :D
GOD DANG that's freaking amazing, and you make it seem so effortless! I always thought I would never be able to do backgrounds, but you make me feel like I can! You are so cool! :D
Great video Mike, funny thing is we are actually working on perspective in my drawing course at my university. I should be working on my manga drawings more but I'm be force feed so much work this semester i don't have time -_-
actually nature does follow many patterns, and i think its just artistic license use to make it look wild and varried. but i do like the video you helped me. i want to use a more realistic style for trees however (and i know how) so this helped me a lot with the merging of styles for the bark.
That is very beautiful but how are yo gonna ink something like this.. as I draw very good pictures with pencil but coming to ink it it become horrible ... I mean ink can't give the same effect of pencils you can't shade and a lot else
Thank you for these tutorials. I am too sickly to attend classes for this atm due to a heart condition for which I need surgery for. So this helps immensely and I can learn from home. You are a fantastic artist and teacher. Thank you.
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Could you do more of these? Different backgrounds as well? :D
thanks man, glad I could help. Backgrounds are surprisingly fun to do-- very relaxing. I'd like to do more in the future for sure.
thank you :) I did a few studies in my sketchbook to explore some designs referencing trees a found using Google images. But the layout I made up.
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Damn my tree looks like a freakin zebra with all these lines :(
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yeah, when I try to draw random scattered patterns in manga it turns to a line. Then you try harder to make it irregular and it turns in to a diagonal line. OCD sucks for artists.
In art you first draw the rough sketch process. Then you find out what the results of the end product is. Art is ultimately unpredictable. So yes, I can certainly see how OCD would suck for artists.
Wait Trees Are Organic I Thought They Were Made In China
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I have such a hard time thinking of what to have as a background for drawings I've made up. I can get the person/s or character/s in the picture perfect but the background doesn't seem quite what I want. Or it just feels thrown together
Ikr ;-; first I'll have some random car or something and then suddenly theres a dragon
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@Em Bot Dragons are awesome!
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same as me...
Thank you so much Koizo. This was very helpful to me, you see, me and my sister are writing a manga, but she specializes in characters, and I specialize in writing, so we needed more people to do backgrounds and objects, until I saw this video that is! :D Thx a lot.
I like how the the technique is to draw carelessly instead of drawing perfect symmetrical lines, which is very convinient and also it makes sense.
I really appreciate this! I've been stressing myself out over trying to digital paint a tree as an anime styled background and after hours of experimenting on it I want to break something! Sketching along with you in my pad definitely calmed me down lol It's all about knowing which details to put in, how to put it in, which details to leave out, etc.
Sometimes it just takes watching someone else do it to help you connect the dots!
i know right?? i was trying to draw a releastic tree for HOURS AND HOURS i am so stressted and there u have it a perft tree
This is great!!! Most manga artists don't seem bold enough to do a tutorial on forest backgrounds. They concentrate on more boxy and simple landscapes! You rock!!!!!!!!
Именно этот парень лет 8-9 назад научил меня рисовать эти деревья! Я до сих пор использую его технику по сей день. Не знаю, что делал бы без его скилла🤣😍
lol! Ya, I lived in Tacoma for a bit and thought the weather was beautiful. It rained a lot but I love being around all those trees. Here in LA everything is brown TT
@32janik That will be a tricky one and I often think about it because a lot of you guys have been mentioning towns. I'm just trying to figure out how to explain it simply. Hmmmmm~~ I will have to think about it more. But it's definitely on my mind :)
I might have to do this one after seeing all the thumbs up for it :) maybe it could be a sort of romantic looking city with some people walking around-- like Final Fantasy cool city, not Niagara Falls.
I drew with you, and I have improved from stick trees. Thank you so much :) Your art is amazing.
sure :) that will take some time though. My manga takes place in a pre-Industrial time so there is probably going to be some towns. I will need some time to do research and think about the video. Nice idea.
Don't you hate when you're at the apex of inspiration. get your paper and pencil, place the lead on the paper, draw a line, and then feel like, "Haha, I can't draw!" .___.
This has been so useful I thought I would need loads of sheets of paper to get the image I wanted but the way you put it helped me draw it the way I wanted it to be first time. Thanks!
Whoa.. I wish I had those skills..!
I like the way you draw... I wanna be a mangaka myself. And I am watching ur videos becuz I like ur advice and techniques... they are awesome.
I wish I would have learned something like this in art class which I had for too many years. All we did was stupid abstract shit and stuff. I am currently learning and practising to real this good stuff via youtube. It is basically a shame how much time I already wasted in art class. There was only one time I can remember we drew people with pencil and ofc we drew some bottles and fruits but the instructions always were miserable - stuff like: "Got ya some food, kids. Now draw it."
I love this channel!
Definitely going to come back to this video when drawing backgrounds
this was helpful. I need to draw a forest with butterflies flying around and this helped me learn how to draw trees and a forest! Thanks
work in 3's!
nature loves the number 3. Notice how many sets of 3 koizu uses throughout his piece. good luck
Thanks you you helped me learn how important it is to have details and shades on your tree
This guy is amazing just like Mark Crilley. Ive learned a bunch from them and have some fan art of them both on Deviant Art.
Hey, I came back to this video after a while because I was having a brain fart for some reason. It still helped me as well as before. Thanks! 8 years later.
I have art exam this morning.. this video really help me
Wanna practise guitar but can't stop watching your vids.Great job!
hey Will! thanks man, appreciate it ^^
I loved the tutorial!!!❤️ I did the picture but I made some small changes. This was my favorite tutorial of the landscapes videos I have seen so far!!❤️❤️❤️
I learned so much from this video!!!! Not just about how to draw a forest but how to build up a proper background. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom. :)
ah dang, well the hard work will pay off for sure ^^ keep at it dude
I leave right next to a forest but I couldn't draw trees before, but after I watched this video now I can.Thank you very much for making this video!^^
Bruh u just made this seem so easy now I'm thinkin its easy I had no trouble almost. Thanks
For a struggling artist like myself, this is extremely helpful, thank you so much.
Thank you so much, this was really helpful for a comic/manga that I'm doing ( if your interested of what the manga is about it's about the wendigo, if your not familiar with the wendigo, I highly suggest to search what it is, if your busy of course but anyways thank you so much for this tutorial, it was very helpful)
"And next to those lines you've got this other kind of lines"
Also the most important rule. Don't put trees in the middle
thanks this video helped a lot i'm not very good at drawing backgrounds and now i can draw a forest one. thanks.
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I like your style ^_^. I've been looking for good ways to draw forest backgrounds. I've gone through countless drawing books and a lot of them don't go too far in depth with forests. This video is just what I needed to continue my drawing education. Thank you for putting this up and I will be checking out your other videos. Keep up the good work.
Thank you I will definitely try this as always struggle with trees/forest
You are correct. Though with manga you have to have as much detail as you possibly can without using too many lines.
It's best to establish a little bit of background first, so that you draw your character in the correct perspective, and you can establish whether or not the lighting of the environment is going to make the character look different, but don't go into much detail until after the character is drawn.
Yeah that would be great. I recommend trying an old fashioned village with a river or stream of some sort going through the middle of it. Of course that might mean adding a bridge or passageway going over it. Pretty hard task to do, but it would be awesome if you could do that. That would be covering maybe housing, bridges, perspective, water, etc. and would be an awesome (probably long and time consuming) video tutorial. Just my recommendation, but only if you'd like to. Don't work too hard.
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MY MIND HAS BEEN BLOOOOOWWN!!!!!!!
This guy is an amazing teacher, I understood everything! Thx you've really helped me!
I like the technique, it's easy, fast and effective!
way to go, koizu!
the manga characters that u draw, have u created them????
can u draw smthing in which u have to draw a crowd?? something like busy street?? u entering a theatre n lights r on??? or a market place where many ppls r??? plz plz plz.................?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First vid i've seen of yours and I already subbed. This is EXACTLY the type of drawing instruction I was looking for. Thanks for spending the time.
This is not even hard I just love it
yep, was accepted 2 days ago. I applied two months ago but didn't make it then.
7 people cant hold a pencil.
UR AWESOME koizu!!!!
You helped me with my bio exam! Thank you.
I really love how you make slow and talk
This is what I needed thank you so much 😊
omg best tutorial ever VERY NICE JOB!
I always look for references, it helps me alot!!!
THANKYOU FOR YOUR TUTORIAL, I PERMISSION TO USE THIS TUTORIAL BRO FOR MY FUTURE GOALS
Thank you SO MUCH. I suck at drawing trees and backgrounds so this helped me out A LOT!
BTW. I like how you draw the tree perfectly the first time but take two tries to draw the bush in the background. lol. :D
COOL !! finally I found an awsome yet simple background to draw whenever I'm out of ideas THANKS A LOT :) nice work
you make it sound so easy thank you mate keep it up
GOD DANG that's freaking amazing, and you make it seem so effortless! I always thought I would never be able to do backgrounds, but you make me feel like I can! You are so cool! :D
Great video Mike, funny thing is we are actually working on perspective in my drawing course at my university. I should be working on my manga drawings more but I'm be force feed so much work this semester i don't have time -_-
You are a very good artist! Thanks for giving me tips on how to draw a forest!
I now know how to sketch a forest background. thanks!
Wow, I can't believe how easily and helpful this was, thanks you so very much!
I can't believe I missed this in my subscription box. Great tutorial by the way!
actually nature does follow many patterns, and i think its just artistic license use to make it look wild and varried. but i do like the video you helped me. i want to use a more realistic style for trees however (and i know how) so this helped me a lot with the merging of styles for the bark.
Can you draw a volcanic background pls. Becuse I'm starting my manga series.
Awesome drawings man your vids help me to improve, so much, thanks😘😊☺😄
I drawd it exactly like you, youre really inspirational.
it is so nice to watch you draw
Omg tysm! This video helped me so much with trees!!!
Nice! It was fun drawing along with you!
tnx for this man i know many things about how to draw human but my weakness is idk how to draw animals and background properly
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very nice, hope you do more backrounds videos :)
thank you so much i really wanted my manga to have good scenery
what i have trouble with is depth like what you did in the punching fists video, for example a hand or an object reaching towards you.
This is the most useful and simple advice i have seen yet, youtube or anywhere! Thanks for posting. :) I shall subscribe to your channel.
AMAZING!!!! and i thought i would never learn how to do a proper forest, Thank you very much!
thanks for the help trees are always that one thing I am afraid to draw and now I kick ass at it
Trees are terrific!
thanks, this helped a lot. trees used to be a pain..
i drew this and it came out amazing
That is very beautiful but how are yo gonna ink something like this.. as I draw very good pictures with pencil but coming to ink it it become horrible ... I mean ink can't give the same effect of pencils you can't shade and a lot else
Wow! Really loved the video! You should definitely make more background tutorials. Such a great help, thanks so much!!!
Awesome technique really helped me thanks.
That is so good OML like that's literally the best tree ever :D
Dayuuum this video reeaaaaally help me out
it's amazing
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by condensed he means closer together. In technical terms this is called Dimunition of space.
I'd love to see more videos about backgrounds, that was really helpful.
thanks koizu, i sure will work hard. I will be making some videos soon so i'll see how that works out :-P
Thank you. Been wondering about doing backgrounds and this def helps!
Dude you make it seem so easy lol thanks for the epic vid
Any time, Mathews! Ty!
Thanks for the vid man, nice, simple and to the point.
Keep em coming :D